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Manufacturing firms are using AI to fill labor shortages - but this human skill still matters

zdnet.com Webb Wright 2025-10-28 17:27:23

Hase-Hoch-2/ iStock / Getty Images Plus via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways: Manufacturers are using AI to adapt to a shifting business landscape. The technology is addressing labor shortages, among other uses. Experiments with AI are revealing new benefits and risks. Manufacturing firms are turning to AI to help them adapt to disruptions in their industry caused by tariffs, shifts in global supply chains, inflation, and other factor

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Deeper Than Deep: David Reich's genetics lab unveils our prehistoric past (2017)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-28 16:52:13

“It’s like the discovery of the New World,” David Reich tells me. “Everything is new, nobody’s looked at it in this way before, so how can things not be interesting?” The excitement surrounding David Reich’s ancient genetics lab at Harvard Medical School is almost palpable. Journals like Science and Nature are unstinting in their praise of the work being done in the Reich Laboratory. Reich and his colleagues are rewriting the history of the human species. Like a scientific Cecil B. DeMille, the

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God Damn, Just Look at This Spider-Man Action Figure

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2025-10-28 17:00:01

Earlier this summer, just after Hasbro had revealed its own line of Marvel Legends action figures inspired by the long legacy of Capcom’s Marvel fighting games, Bandai wowed us with S.H. Figuarts joining in on the celebration with its very own series of figures, starting with X-Men stalwart Cyclops. Now, Figuarts is back for round 2—and it’s ready to unleash some maximum spider! This week Bandai officially unveiled that the next series in its own Marvel Gameverse line will be none other than on

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The Apple Watch is not actually carbon neutral, says German court

9to5mac.com Benjamin Mayo 2025-10-29 01:56:41

Apple is no longer allowed to advertise the Apple Watch as carbon neutral, a German court ruled following a protest from environmentalists about Apple’s promoted claims. The Frankfurt court found the company misled consumers for describing the Apple Watch as a CO2-neutral product. Apple first unveiled its first carbon neutral products starting with the Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 in September 2023. The German ruling means that language relating to these devices being carbon neutral will h

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Dangerous Advice for Software Engineers

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-29 05:15:17

I’m a big fan of “sharp tools”. These are tools that are powerful enough to be hugely helpful or harmful, depending on how they’re used. Most forms of direct production access are in this category: like ssh or kubectl, or a read-write prod SQL console. It’s also possible to give “dangerous advice”. Dangerous advice is dangerous because (like sharp tools) it takes competence and judgment to use well. Giving the wrong person dangerous advice is like giving the wrong person production SQL access -

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The Feud Between Grok and ChatGPT Just Got Real

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-10-29 14:10:55

Elon Musk has been accusing OpenAI and Apple of engaging in some sort of corporate conspiracy to inhibit smaller AI companies (you know, like his own) from flourishing. Now, his company, xAI, is suing both firms, accusing them of having used “anticompetitive” practices to quash their competitors (again, you know, like Musk). The lawsuit, which was filed in Texas on Monday, argues that the two companies have colluded to make ChatGPT the “only generative AI chatbot that benefits from billions of

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Scientists Just Transplanted a Pig Lung Into a Human for the First Time

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-29 21:12:30

Image by Getty / Futurism Developments For the first time in history, scientists in China have transplanted a lung from a genetically modified pig into a human patient. As detailed in a paper published in the journal Nature, the team of researchers transplanted the lung into the body of a 39-year-old male who had previously been declared brain-dead, in May of last year at the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University. The news comes after scientists in the United States succes

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Want a subscription-free, Oura-like smart ring? You need act fast. Here's why

zdnet.com Nina Raemont 2025-10-30 01:36:00

Nina Raemont/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Oura won a patent dispute with Ultrahuman and RingConn. The two competitors infringed on form factor patents, the ITC ruled on Aug. 21. Ultrahuman and RingConn smart rings can no longer be sold in the US. Oura secured a final legal victory in its patent dispute with Ultrahuman and RingConn last week. The US International Trade Commission's ruling asserts that the two competing smart ring brands i

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Scamlexity: When agentic AI browsers get scammed

news.ycombinator.com Nati Tal 2025-10-29 17:03:56

This is the new reality we call " Scamlexity " - a new era of scam complexity , supercharged by Agentic AI. Familiar tricks hit harder than ever, while new AI-born attack vectors break into reality. In this world, your AI gets played, and you foot the bill. We built and tested three scenarios, from a fake Walmart store and a real in-the-wild Wells Fargo phishing site to PromptFix - our AI-era take on the ClickFix scam that hides prompt injection inside a fake captcha to directly take control of

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Horrifying screwworm infection confirmed in US traveler after overseas trip

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-30 05:38:14

Flesh-eating screwworm larvae poised to invade the US have snuck into Maryland via the flesh of a person who had recently traveled to El Salvador, upping anxiety about the ghastly—and economically costly—parasite. Reuters was first to report the case early Monday, quoting Andrew Nixon, spokesperson for the US Department of Health and Human Services, who said in an email that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had confirmed the case on August 4 in a person who had returned from a tri

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AirPods Pro 3 just got the launch update we were all hoping for: report

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-10-30 04:39:24

Reporting around AirPods Pro 3 launch timing has been all over the place in the last year, but the latest update from Bloomberg offers very good news for those waiting for a new model. AirPods Pro 3 are coming this fall, per Mark Gurman In his Power On newsletter over the weekend, Mark Gurman shared an overview of what to expect from Apple’s product launches this fall. Most of what he shared focused on products we’ve heard were coming already, but there was one exciting addition: new AirPods P

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Oura's biggest smart ring rivals were just banned in the US - but you can still buy them (for now)

zdnet.com Nina Raemont 2025-10-30 09:23:27

Nina Raemont/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Oura won a patent dispute with Ultrahuman and RingConn. The two competitors infringed on form factor patents, the ITC ruled on Aug. 21. Ultrahuman and RingConn smart rings can no longer be sold in the US. Oura secured a final legal victory in its patent dispute with Ultrahuman and RingConn last week. The US International Trade Commission's ruling asserts that the two competing smart ring brands

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In a First, a Human Breathed Using an Implanted Pig Lung

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2025-10-30 09:40:28

The tantalizing potential of pig-to-human transplantation, or xenotransplantation, has reached another frontier. For the first time ever, scientists have transplanted a genetically edited pig lung into a living human body. Researchers in China reported the medical feat in a study published Monday in Nature Medicine. The gene-edited left lung survived for nine days inside a person declared to be brain dead. More work has to be done to ensure the long-term viability of these organs, the researche

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Robomart unveils new delivery robot with $3 flat fee to challenge DoorDash, Uber Eats

techcrunch.com Rebecca Szkutak 2025-10-30 21:00:00

Robomart, a startup that builds self-driving delivery robots, is unveiling its latest robot with an ambitious goal of using it to make on-demand delivery profitable. The Los Angeles-based company announced its patented Robomart RM5 on Monday. The level-four autonomous vehicle can carry up to 500 pounds and is made up of 10 individual lockers that hold customer orders. This structure is designed to allow for batch ordering so a robot can work on multiple deliveries at the same time. Robomart pl

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We put agentic AI browsers to the test – They clicked, they paid, they failed

news.ycombinator.com Nati Tal 2025-10-30 18:03:56

This is the new reality we call " Scamlexity " - a new era of scam complexity , supercharged by Agentic AI. Familiar tricks hit harder than ever, while new AI-born attack vectors break into reality. In this world, your AI gets played, and you foot the bill. We built and tested three scenarios, from a fake Walmart store and a real in-the-wild Wells Fargo phishing site to PromptFix - our AI-era take on the ClickFix scam that hides prompt injection inside a fake captcha to directly take control of

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We Put Agentic AI Browsers to the Test – They Clicked, They Paid, They Failed

news.ycombinator.com Nati Tal 2025-10-31 14:03:56

This is the new reality we call " Scamlexity " - a new era of scam complexity , supercharged by Agentic AI. Familiar tricks hit harder than ever, while new AI-born attack vectors break into reality. In this world, your AI gets played, and you foot the bill. We built and tested three scenarios, from a fake Walmart store and a real in-the-wild Wells Fargo phishing site to PromptFix - our AI-era take on the ClickFix scam that hides prompt injection inside a fake captcha to directly take control of

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The Final ‘Toxic Avenger’ Trailer Is a Goofy, Retro Call to Arms

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-10-31 13:15:38

After two years of uncertainty whether it’d come out, the next Toxic Avenger movie is hitting theaters this upcoming week. But in case you’re not aware, the folks at BloodyDisgusting—a subsidiary of Cineverse, the film’s distributor—commissioned a trailer that it hopes will make you, in its own words, “show the fuck up.” This new “grindhouse” trailer comes courtesy of Wilson Cleveland, a producer and actor who’s previously made fan trailers for Weapons and other films. Cleveland’s approach for

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Top Microsoft AI Boss Concerned AI Will Start to Demand Rights

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-31 08:45:22

In a blog post this week, Microsoft's head of AI Mustafa Suleyman responded to the drastic rise in mental health crises stemming from AI use, calling for caution "about what happens in the run up towards superintelligence." At the core of Suleyman's argument isn't the dystopian threat of AI gaining consciousness — an idea currently grounded more in fantasy than scientific evidence, according to many researchers — but the belief that it already is. "My central worry is that many people will sta

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You likely shouldn’t hold your breath for a new pair of AirPods Max: report

9to5mac.com Michael Burkhardt 2025-10-31 10:56:08

AirPods Max have had a bit of a disappointing history. After much anticipation, they finally released at the tail end of 2020. Some fans were disappointed with the high price tag and rather heavy aluminum and steel design, and have been looking forward to a revamp ever since. Despite being refreshed last year, it was merely just a USB-C port swap and new colors. The headphones still lack in features compared to Apple’s newer AirPods Pro 2, and that likely won’t be changing. Per Mark Gurman’s P

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Craig Mazin Talks Going Solo for ‘The Last of Us’ Season 3

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-10-31 12:30:43

Season two of The Last of Us came and went earlier this year, and we already know its third season is on the horizon. Whereas the first two seasons were a team effort between showrunners Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann and writer Hailey Gross, this next season will have Mazin as sole showrunner and writer—Druckmann, who also runs game developer Naughty Dog, is devoting his time to the studio’s next project, Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet. In a recent interview with the Hollywood Reporter, Ma

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Katee Sackhoff Talks ‘The Mandalorian’ and Acting Struggles

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-10-31 14:25:01

Battlestar Galacta alum Katee Sackhoff has been in genre TV for years. After voicing cultist turned mercenary/freedom fighter Bo-Katan Kryze for Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Rebels, she reprised the role in the live-action series The Mandalorian. She’s gotten to play Bo several times since then, but as the actor herself tells it, coming back to that role hasn’t been without its challenges. In the latest episode of her podcast, Sackhoff told her Battlestar co-worker Tahmoh Penikett how she lost

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AI Isn't Human and We Need to Stop Treating It That Way, Says Microsoft AI CEO

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-30 20:00:05

Microsoft AI's CEO Mustafa Suleyman is clear: AI is not human and does not possess a truly human consciousness. But the warp-speed advancement of generative AI is making that harder and harder to recognize. The consequences are potentially disastrous, he wrote Tuesday in an essay on his personal blog. Suleyman's 4,600-word treatise is a timely reaction to a growing phenomenon of AI users ascribing human-like qualities of consciousness to AI tools. It's not an unreasonable reaction; it's human n

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See How David Corenswet Became Superman in His Audition Tape

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-10-31 08:40:14

The world was abuzz with speculation just a few years ago when it came time for James Gunn to cast his new Superman. Even before the part ultimately went to David Corenswet, he was being floated around as a likely candidate, and now you can watch how he got the part. YouTube account 21Casting posted the actor’s audition tape, which he performed with his wife Julia Warner. The three-minute video features him as Clark Kent being interviewed as Superman by Lois Lane over his intervention in Biayla

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Robots can now learn to use tools just by watching us

news.ycombinator.com Cheng Zhu 2025-10-31 09:14:39

This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: Credit: UIUC HCA LAB Despite decades of progress, most robots are still programmed for specific, repetitive tasks. They struggle with the unexpected and can't adapt to new situations without painstaking reprogramming. But what if they could learn to use tools as naturally as a child does by watching videos? I still

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Five Years Ago, ‘The Batman’ Made Its Brutal, Moody Debut

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-10-31 10:25:04

On August 22, 2020, Warner Bros. held its first-ever DC FanDome, a weekend-long virtual event meant to make up for that year’s San Diego Comic-Con, which was canceled due to the pandemic. If you’ve ever followed big industry events like the Game Awards or… well, Comic-Con, you know they often come with a big trailer or two that’s meant to make it all worth it. And for WB, the big showcase for its inaugural, short-lived event was the very first look at Matt Reeves’ The Batman. Trailers for super

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This $5,000 gaming rig blew me away

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-31 08:30:48

Alienware Area-51 Gaming Desktop The Alienware Area 51 is the ultimate pre-built gaming PC for anyone who wants top-tier performance without the headaches of building their own. It’s pricey and massive, but if you’ve got the space and budget, it delivers a plug-and-play experience that’s both powerful and future-proof. Don’t get me wrong, building a PC from scratch is fun. I’ve built over five computers at this point, and each one has taught me something new. But not everyone wants to go throug

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Manim: Animation engine for explanatory math videos

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-31 06:35:49

Manim is an engine for precise programmatic animations, designed for creating explanatory math videos. Note, there are two versions of manim. This repository began as a personal project by the author of 3Blue1Brown for the purpose of animating those videos, with video-specific code available here. In 2020 a group of developers forked it into what is now the community edition, with a goal of being more stable, better tested, quicker to respond to community contributions, and all around friendlie

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Get an Extremely Close-Up Look at Tobey Maguire’s Spider-Man Costume

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2025-10-31 21:00:36

Spider-Man 2 is widely considered one of the greatest comic book movies of all time—if not the greatest—and now you can own a piece of Hollywood history, or at least admire it in some very up-close new photos, thanks to an upcoming auction offering Tobey Maguire’s screen-used Spider-suit. As a bonus, the suit was also used in the much less-beloved Spider-Man 3, so it’s also got some genuine Hollywood notoriety attached to it, too. The suit is yet another jaw-dropping addition to Propstore’s upc

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‘Birds of Prey’ Almost Featured Another DC Bird: The Penguin

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-11-01 05:30:06

Before Colin Farrell became the Penguin in Matt Reeves’ The Batman, the character almost had a different origin story in the DC Universe. According to star and producer Margot Robbie, early versions of the script for her Harley Quinn vehicle Birds of Prey, featured the iconic Batman villain as the main antagonist, but then someone stepped in and asked that not to happen. “Matt Reeves said, ‘Don’t use the Penguin. I’m going to use him in my thing,'” Robbie explained to Farrell in an interview wi

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Does MHz Still Matter?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-01 10:47:05

Does MHz still matter? Furkan Sahin Senior Software Engineer To provide VMs of any size, we slice bare metal into smaller VMs, sometimes even 1 vCPU. So, the performance of one fast core matters a lot. We evaluated new servers from Hetzner with AMD EPYC and Ryzen CPUs to add to our fleet. Ryzen is a CPU from AMD’s gaming line-up and it has better single core performance numbers compared to the EPYC which is a standard datacenter CPU. We weren’t sure if Ryzen’s single core edge would show up in

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Manufacturing firms are using AI to fill labor shortages - but this human skill still matters

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